Detecting Short-Term Surface Melt on an Arctic Glacier Using UAV Surveys

• Published in: Remote Sensing
• Main Authors: Eleanor A. Bash, Brian J. Moorman, Allison Gunther
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2018
• Subjects: UAV; structure-from-motion photogrammetry; change detection; glacier melt; Canadian Arctic; Arctic; Fountain Glacier
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10101547

Current understanding of glacier mass balance changes under changing climate is limited by scarcity of in situ measurements in both time and space, as well as resolution of remote sensing products. Recent innovations in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), as well as structure-from-motion photogrammetry...